In many locations across the United States, temperatures are packing a wallop this summer, well above normal levels. From office buildings to schools, hospitals, factories and more, people have been seriously cooking in the last few months, and not in fun, summertime BBQ-kinds of ways.
But it’s a dry heat, right?
No way. Hot weather plus humidity leads to some truly uncomfortable conditions where a day at the office can feel like eight hours in the sauna – but for a limited time, Setra Systems and Alps Controls have a solution.
Right now, you can save up to 20% on all of Setra Systems’ humidity and combo sensors.
Yes, that’s all of them: room and duct humidity sensors, combination temperature/humidity transmitters and more. And to make things even cooler, Setra Systems has added active temperature outputs on every combo unit. Just add a combo unit to your cart and specify if you want current (4 – 20 ma) or voltage (selectable 0-5 VDC or 0-10 VDC). Simple.
So if you’d like to save some money and you’re tired of your clothes feeling as sticky as a Florida swamp, slide over to the Alps Controls e-catalog site and drop some Setra Systems humidity and combo sensors into your shopping cart today.
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Find Setra Systems humidity and combo sensors at 20% off right here
- But hurry: This special pricing offer expires on 9.30.10!
WIN! Dave Meyers and Ken Siefert of Alps Controls named 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year!
In June, Alps Controls’ Dave Meyers and Ken Siefert were named 2010 Information Management Entrepreneurs of the Year by Ernst & Young!
(from left to right, Alps Controls Sales Representative Wendy Siefert; Vice President & Director of eBusiness Systems Ken Siefert; President Dave Meyers; Ann Meyers)
The awards were handed out at a black-tie event at the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. The competition honored sixteen finalist companies in industries as diverse as healthcare, logistics, e-commerce, fashion and more. Now in its 24th year, the Ernst & Young competition is judged and awarded regionally, nationally and then globally. Recipients at each competition level are invited to move onward and upward.
Alps Controls has now been honored in a region including Western Pennsylvania, Upstate New York and West Virginia, and Dave and Ken will be invited to attend the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California, in November this year. Speakers at this year’s event include Deepak Chopra, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, Tom Adams of Rosetta Stone, Charlie Rose, film director Kathryn Bigelow and more. Following the four-day forum, National Entrepreneurs of the Year will be awarded at a gala event hosted by Jay Leno.
Big-time congrats to Dave and Ken from everyone at Alps Controls!
Today we pose 5PM5Qs with Betty Horvwalt, our Alps Controls Accounting Manager who uses her five answers to extol the virtues and mysteries of handling your customer payments electronically through alpscontrols.com.
Is it easy? Cheap? Will it make your life oh so much better? I think you probably know the answers to all of those, but let’s hear Betty tell us in her own delightful style.
Were you paying attention? I think she might have just offered you a hug.
Get free shipping in June and July when you order Siemens Building Technology products at alpscontrols.com
UPDATE: This promotion has expired, but keep an eye on alpscontrols.com for future special pricing promotions from more than 130 manufacturers.
That title pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? And it’s even simple to do:
- Visit the page on alpscontrols.com where we’ve magically assembled all of the products that we sell from Siemens Building Technology
- Browse the products and add a whole bunch of them to your shopping cart
- Process your order and totally don’t get charged any regular domestic shipping charges
- Do all of this within in the months of June and July of this year
- Enjoy the happiness that will ensue
Hey, you don’t suppose that there’s a video explaining all of this, do you?
The new Ventostat from GE Sensing is now available in all configurations with next-day shipping!
GE Sensing introduced their new Telaire Ventostat 8000 series to us at Alps Controls several months ago; it’s the first of its kind on the market that can measure temperature, humidity and CO2 all in one compact sensor. GE Sensing has created an innovative new design for the Ventostat which distributes any heat generated by the unit’s power source and sensor technology and distributes it outside of the sensor’s case – ensuring accuracy and proper calibration of the unit. What’s more, having only one sensor do the work of three cuts down on installation and maintenance costs, and makes it easier to meet aesthetic design requirements.
And right now the Alps Controls e-catalog site has all of the Ventostat 8000 series configurations available with next-day shipping – so take a look at this video in which GE Sensing Global Product Manager Chris Ranwell introduces the new sensor:
Very cool news this morning: our President Dave Meyers and Vice President & Director of eBusiness Systems Ken Siefert have been named finalists in the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia/Upstate New York Area Region.
From the E&Y website, the Entrepreneur of the Year Regional Awards are
…the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. Recognized globally, the award honors the most outstanding entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement.
Believing that entrepreneurial spirit and innovation can be the fuels to global economic recovery, Ernst & Young recognizes entrepreneurs annually through regional, national and global awards.
During the application and interview process, the folks at Ernst & Young have learned a lot about Alps Controls’ transactional e-distribution model and how Dave and Ken have brought the power of online commerce to the traditionally inefficient building controls supply chain process. Since 1993, we’ve developed a custom-made, web-based application to sell HVAC and building automation products to contractors, and we’ve provided our industry’s manufacturers with a way to market and sell direct to customers by eliminating the need for distributor warehouses, their associated costs and carbon footprint.
The Alps Controls business model is hyper-efficient, cost-effective, paperless, and provides vast benefits to both customers and manufacturers. We now sell products for more than 130 manufacturers (and we’re adding an additional two every month), and we’ve experienced 10% – 20% growth year after year, despite the economic downturn.
Congrats, Dave and Ken! Everyone at Alps Controls is excited to be a part of such an innovative and industry-changing company!
Our partners at Automation Components Inc. (ACI) recently sent a quick quiz over to us to see if we knew anyone who’d like to have a brand spanking new ACI shirt. All you have to do to get one is to be among the first 10 people to spot the 10 differences in the HVAC system pictures below.
Ready to elevate your wardrobe to the next level? Take a look first at this original image (click the image to see it bigger):
And now look closely at this one – can you figure out what’s different?
When you’re ready to make your guess, just send an email to Travis Haas at ACI; the first 10 answers that accurately describe 10 differences between the two pictures will win an ACI shirt – and you’ll have your choice of men’s and women’s sizes, and different colors and styles.
Once again we leap headlong into the breach as we set out to get under the skin of our fascinating and erudite Alps Controls staff members. Today we’re in for a real treat as our Sales Rep (and resident rock-and-roll bassist) Jim Kalafatis gives us a peek into that most sacred of rock legends: the post-gig hotel room scene.
Can you handle the truth? Take a look, brave readers:
The folks at Setra Systems really love us! Related: we sell Setra Systems products at our website!
Special big-time thanks to the folks at Setra Systems, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer of pressure monitors, humidity sensors and more for a wide variety of applications in the HVAC and industrial markets. Mel Doucette of Setra and Tim Dixon of KDK Reps stopped by the Alps Controls offices the other day to let us know that we were their Top Sales Growth Partner for 2009.
And that means we got a major award!
But what does it mean for you? Well, if your controls project requires some high-quality room monitors and sensors, you should take a look at the Setra products that we have available. What’s more, we’ve readying some new products from Setra, including a terrific flush-mount room pressure monitor ideal for hospital rooms, research labs, cleanrooms and more. Check back here soon for more details.
Learn more about your favorite folks at Alps Controls with our new series “5:00 pm. 5 Questions”.
At our e-catalog site alpscontrols.com we’ve got a page called Talking Heads where you can watch videos about our company, our HVAC and building controls manufacturer partners, our website capabilities, and a whole lot more.
And yes, you should think of it as an added bonus that the Talking Heads page often features our own Alps Controls employees, doing our best to provide you with insight into our work, our business, our outlook and the industry we share. Plus, you get to take a look at the very same people that maybe you only usually get to talk to on the phone.
We’ve begun a regular series called 5:00 pm. 5 Questions in which – just in case its title didn’t pretty much tell you everything you needed to know – I pose a near half-dozen softball queries to someone right at the end of the day when they’d really rather be on the way home. It’s my hope that their answers will delight, inform, amaze and bewilder you, if only for a few precious minutes.
Find out who would come out on top of a classic sci-fi deathmatch in this 5PM5Qs with our Webmaster/DBA Chuck Benscoter:
And here you can learn what might be for dinner tonight when 5PM5Qs sits down with Sales Representative extraordinaire Wendy Siefert:
Got a question or comment for Chuck and Wendy? Want to suggest someone for 5PM5Qs? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll make it happen.
